ATL: IKE Discussion

[jinftl]

Bad bands approaching coast but your observation makes me wonder as to whether wind radii are translating to surface over land....you should be just about at 50 kt radii.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE 955 MB
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS 90 KT WITH GUSTS TO 110 KT.
64 KT.......105NE 90SE 50SW 60NW.
50 KT.......150NE 150SE 75SW 90NW.
34 KT.......240NE 200SE 150SW 170NW.

Just went out and took an observation from 10 miles west of Galveston Bay in SE Houston. Only 25 kts and very light rain off and on. When it hits it's going to come all at once, it appears.

[fasterdisaster]

Bad bands approaching coast but your observation makes me wonder as to whether wind radii are translating to surface over land....you should be just about at 50 kt radii.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE 955 MB
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS 90 KT WITH GUSTS TO 110 KT.
64 KT.......105NE 90SE 50SW 60NW.
50 KT.......150NE 150SE 75SW 90NW.
34 KT.......240NE 200SE 150SW 170NW.

Just went out and took an observation from 10 miles west of Galveston Bay in SE Houston. Only 25 kts and very light rain off and on. When it hits it's going to come all at once, it appears.

It's from land friction. This always happens, winds are not as high over land as on water.

[expat2carib]

Impossible to connect to the S2K server for some minutes. Timeout error.

I can see many had the same problem because looking at the members and visitors on line (bottom of the board) suddenly was half of what it was before

[tolakram]

This is not a forecast

[fasterdisaster]

Dry slot seems to be shrinking again.

[PTPatrick]

Texas And M galveston is not on the walled part of the island...will it go under?

Church st is now flooded in downtown galveston

[fasterdisaster]

This is not a forecast

...oh my God.

[Deathray]

Watching Anderson Cooper stand in front to the Chase Tower and it's a bit windy.

I can't find that feed anywhere... finding some stupid campaign trail info

[Stephanie]

I SWEAR that TWC is looking to lose a Met or two. Abrams, Bettes and Cantore are all in and around Galveston.

They were reporting that people calling for help cannot and will not receive any until tomorrow because emergency services can't get to them now with the storm upon them. I'm having flashbacks of Katrina and NO.

[pablolopez26]

Wheres the photo of the bear guy on the beach?? Someone please post it again, that made me laugh, and right now i need a laugh!

[jinftl]

bad wobble at 7pm....worse at 8pm for G. Bay

This is not a forecast

[lost cause]

Texas And M galveston is not on the walled part of the island...will it go under?

Church st is now flooded in downtown galveston

It's on Pelican Island. It'll go under since Pelican Is. is nothing more than dredge deposits stacked up over the past 100 years.

[CajunMama]

I posted this around 4 today and it helped for awhile....

Can i suggest something....when you're making a post and you hit submit and it shows that others have made a post during the time you were talking...if they've said the same thing you typed out...don't hit submit. I've just read the past 10 pages which could be condensed down to 5 without people posting the same thing.

If you want to chat like you've been doing in this thread, go to the chatroom. Y'all are making it ridiculously hard to find any decent information in this thread.

[PTPatrick]

They will all be in high Hotels...wont be pretty but I am sure they will survive...heck Jim dang near died i katrina...I am sure he has an escape route planned.

[HarlequinBoy]

From the CNN feed on Larry King it's pretty windy in Galveston.

[KWT]

Ike closing in on Galveston now, some really heavy convection just south of the bay, won't be long before hurricane force gusts come along near the coastline, probably just offshore at the moment.

[Weatherfreak000]

Unless my eyes are deceiving me...another North wobble at the end of satellite loop.

[Mello1]

Just went out and took an observation from 10 miles west of Galveston Bay in SE Houston. Only 25 kts and very light rain off and on. When it hits it's going to come all at once, it appears.

Please stay safe there. It's gonna be a long night for you.

[HURAKAN]

[Weatherfreak14]